The Committee to Protect Journalists, yesterday appealed to the Nigerian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release freelance journalist, Luka Binniyat, and drop all charges against him. Recall that on November 4, Police officers in Barnawa, Kaduna State, arrested Binniyat, a journalist who contributes to the U.S.-based news outlet The Epoch Times, according to an Epoch Times report and Jonathan Asake, president of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, (SOKAPU), a local rights group, who spoke to CPJ in a phone interview. Binniyat, who also works as a spokesperson for SOKAPU, was…
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